Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> My guess is that you don't have Python installed, or it's installed
> but is missing some crucial component. If you have some expertise in
> MinGW - or learn it better, which would be a good idea if you really
> want to use gnulib-tool under MinGW - it would help if you could see
> exactly what went wrong.
I don't think it a Python component could be missing. As long as a
Python version ≥ 3.7 is installed everything should be fine on that
end:
$ python3 --version
Python 3.12.3
Since everything we use is part of the Python standard library.
It could be possible that MinGW is missing required programs to run.
Although written in Python, it generally assumes everything listed in
DEPENDENCIES installed.
Off the top of my head I know certainly find, diff, patch, perl, make,
autoconf, and automake are needed for almost anything. There are a few
places sed is used. I'm probably missing more.
> Perhaps gnulib-tool should have better behavior in this situation,
> though as I don't use MinGW I can't advise how to modify gnulib-tool
> to do that.
Same, I don't know much about MinGW. I know that it should be possible
from Simon and Bruno's CI jobs. Personally I have run gnulib-tool using
Cygwin and everything was pretty straight forward. I would recommend
using that and installing all the packages listed in DEPENDENCIES.
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